FEAR Unit: Protecting the Nation From SOME Terrorism

So, The Federal Even-yeared Anti-Terror Repsonse (FEAR) Unit was all over reports of a plot to bomb US football stadiums. I mean, some anonymous idiot somewhere posted a comment on a random blog! Clearly this is a gathering and imminent threat. It certainly merits full news coverage on all the news networks and ESPN (the sports angle literally doubles the coverage). Good thing FEAR Unit distributed the meaningless information where it needed to go.

Of course, On September 11 of this year, a domestic terrorist attempted a suicide bombing in Davenport, Iowa by dousing his car with gasoline and running it into a Women's Health Clinic. FEAR Unit made a close inspection of the threat, sure. But then they took a look at the picture of the guy:



And realized he was clearly no concern at all, being white and pro-life.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism -- even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war.

Thank your personal God (as long as it isn't Allah) that we have trained professionals like FEAR Unit to tell us what might be TERRORISM!, and what's nothing more than a white antiabortion activist trying to suicide bomb a women's clinic on the anniversary of the biggest terrorist attack on American soil.